Elderism #9
Sunday, October 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I went to Carnegie Hall last night to hear the virtuosic pianist and composer Keith Jarrett perform. (I realize that he's only in his 60's, and thus not really an "elder", but, please: indulge me). Jarrett--who played with his back ...
Elderism #8
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In The Economist's obit for Marjorie Dean, the mainstay of that publication's financial pages for 49 years, we learn that the gimlet-eyed Brit journalist often persevered through hard times by quoting Don Marquis's comic poem, "archy and mehitabel": 'it's cheerio my ...
Elderism #7
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Prophet Muhammad, in the Hadith: "Trust in God, but tie your camel."
Elderism #6
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Somerset Maugham: "Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." (The Summing Up, 1938)
Elderism #5
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »What older British men are thinking about: "The subject of my dissatisfaction is men's underpants... On rare occasions one will experience a tightness across the pelvis at about midday, progressing to real discomfort towards the evening. This indicates that, in moments of distraction, a misplaced ...
Elderism #4
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »An exterminator named John Murphy, in Pest Control Technology magazine: "You always have to think beyond the structure. Think about what is going on underneath and all around, because that is where the rats are located." Think beyond the structure, friends.
Elderism #3
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »What an older gentleman who had set up his easel on the side of Lincoln Road in Miami Beach blurted out at me while he painted feverishly: "Sharpen your edges!"
Elderism #2
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In the catalog to her currently-touring exhibition, 96 year-old sculptor Louise Bourgeois states: "The spiral--I love the spiral--represents control and freedom." A fairly innocuous statement, were it not preceded by these five sentences: "The spiral is important ...
An Elderism
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The words of advice that Arianna Huffington's mother used to give young Arianna and her sister: "Darling, let it marinate." (New Yorker)
Stalin’s Boy (1899-2008)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Boris Yefimov, Russia's leading political cartoonist of the 20th century, made it to the ripe age of 109. Yesterday's Daily Telegraph obit explains that Yefimov lived through revolution, civil war, genocide, two world wars, the Cold War, and the death of ...
